May 13, 20196 yr comment_5887852 My favorite reality game show of all time, De Mol, featured a challenge in their 2018 season where two players had to learn to perform three lucha libre moves out of a possible twenty. Their fellow contestants had to memorize those twenty moves and identify which three were utilized in an exhibition match.
May 13, 20196 yr comment_5887875 I've heard that characters on Billions made some rather inside references. Showrunner Brian Koppleman is a life-long fan, talks about WWE on his Twitter account and actually was going to create a show about the territories for HBO I think and even talked to Vince in that process.
May 23, 20196 yr comment_5888859 The Athletic had a long interview with theEduardo Ortega, the Padres' Spanish-language play-by-play announcer. (It's The Athletic, so it's paywalled.) Apparently he's a huge lucha libre fan, and started out calling matches in Tijuana on the radio. He collects masks, and is known for dropping references into his play-by-play.
June 4, 20196 yr comment_5890225 How could I forget this, in the Simpsons episode The Day the Violence Died, Lionel Hutz's "surprise witnesses" include the McGuire Twins (no lines, it's just a throwaway gag). Granted, this assumes you consider them "wrestlers" in the first case.
June 10, 20196 yr comment_5890685 Too bad you can't understand, but I swear the GREAT Jean Rochefort just said "Tiger suplex" at one point. My life is complete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMw0YWUXVE
June 10, 20196 yr comment_5890704 4 hours ago, El-P said: Too bad you can't understand, but I swear the GREAT Jean Rochefort just said "Tiger suplex" at one point. My life is complete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMw0YWUXVE I LOVED Man on the Train and The Hairdresser's Wife. On 6/4/2019 at 12:25 PM, JRH said: How could I forget this, in the Simpsons episode The Day the Violence Died, Lionel Hutz's "surprise witnesses" include the McGuire Twins (no lines, it's just a throwaway gag). Granted, this assumes you consider them "wrestlers" in the first case.
June 10, 20196 yr comment_5890714 7 hours ago, gordi said: I LOVED Man on the Train and The Hairdresser's Wife. You should watch Tandem if you can, from the same director. One of Rochefort's best role. But damn. Jean Rochefort said "tiger suplex".
June 11, 20196 yr comment_5890822 No idea why I never thought of this. The great lucha-libre scene in OSS 117 Rio ne répond plus. (fantastic movie)
June 12, 20196 yr comment_5890836 Apparently Brodus Clay was working as a Fox Nation talk show host and just got axed for sexual harassing his co-anchor https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-nation-star-tyrus-accused-of-sexual-harassment-by-co-host-britt-mchenry
June 23, 20196 yr comment_5891488 This is pretty f'n cool: https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2475448/dwayne-johnson-had-the-best-reaction-to-getting-his-own-jeopardy-category
June 30, 20196 yr comment_5892348 CM Punk cut a promo video for NBC for their pre-race show for the race today at Chicagoland Speedway.
July 23, 20196 yr comment_5894294 https://variety.com/2019/tv/opinion/vince-mcmahon-wwe-woes-1203273548/ Pretty interesting.
July 23, 20196 yr comment_5894322 Just read that. Fuck, I still can't believe they pulled the ultimate con on USA and Fox
July 23, 20196 yr comment_5894410 He kinda looks like a dwarf on that pic. I dunno, the giant belt maybe...
July 24, 20196 yr comment_5894476 What about the television show Psych referencing Mike Sharpe's cleanliness OCD? That's unusual and obscure.
July 25, 20196 yr comment_5894512 Psych made several wrestling references I believe. I wasn't a big fan of the show but I did watch a little and remember one referencing Kamala's real name. One of the strangest was on Homicide: Life On The Street between Richard Belzer(!) as Munch belittling his partner Ned Beatty's taste in pro wrestling.
July 25, 20196 yr comment_5894546 On 7/23/2019 at 11:12 AM, Ricky Jackson said: Just read that. Fuck, I still can't believe they pulled the ultimate con on USA and Fox They have got to be feeling some buyers remorse right now.
August 24, 20196 yr comment_5897377 So, this is the biggest song to hit my country in a while - I see it's even sparked a (semi)viral worldwide hashtag on Twitter. If you do watch this - from everyone in my country, I'm so sorry.
October 12, 20195 yr comment_5901479 ^^ Well, I actually kinda like it. Speaking about hip-hop and pro-wrestling and WTF factor, Lil Kim is back in 2019 and this track begins with a sample of Micheal Cole saying "Mark Henry". I Have no idea either. (kinda like that track too)
November 29, 20195 yr comment_5906507 This is, I guess, more like "something very unusual in a pro wrestling context..." but I had to post this somewhere:
December 30, 20195 yr comment_5908232 Maybe this has already been mentioned here, but we are currently binge watching the TV show Banshee. And it's glorious, violent wall-to-wall fighting and fucking. It's over the top. It's outrageous. It's that male soap opera stuff through and through. Anyway, we're only into the second season. But we've already seen Lana show up for a guest shot and get coke snorted off them tiddies in a bathroom stall. And we just now finished up an episode that basically had a steel chain match inside a rundown single-wide trailer house. This big Native American bastard literally busts out a Lariatohhh, a belly to belly suplex, and a fucking German sooplay onto a wooden gahdamn table. Fantastic. Highly recommend.
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